Memorial Morning

Somehow I'm still always a little surprised when Troy and I suggest a holiday activity that requires the kids to wake up early and they are totally willing and excited to do it. Memorial Day breakfast up Millcreek Canyon has become one of our favorite things to do. It's so delightful. 

This year the girls agreed that the breakfast of the day would be biscuits and gravy - with biscuits to be freshly baked in a dutch oven. Plus some juice. We gathered every single thing we needed and got in the car and found a lovely spot. Then we discovered that we forgot some stuff. Like cups for the orange juice. That's ok! We had tinfoil and cans of coke zero, so we improvised and used our creative little brains to fashion our own drinking vessels. Also we forgot tongs for the charcoal. That was harder to improvise around but we managed.

 

Also we had a lizard who was very interested in our very warm fire pit and hung out with us for quite a while. The fact that this was the most exciting thing that happened is the perfect example of why we love our breakfasts in the mountains. 

 

After our exceedingly delicious food (dutch oven biscuits really are the best) and being greeted by a very friendly man who wanted to share his truck-load of firewood with us, we did another wonderful thing which was sit by the fire and read, or knit, or draw. 

It's so good to do these things because once we return back home I always manage to get going on some cleaning project or something like that. This is not a bad thing, but I do it too much and we need to make sure to get away and into the mountains more than we do.